Blogs about: Older Fiction
Don't Talk to Me About the War by David Adler
prkcs wrote 2 days ago: In 1940, 13-year-old Tommy Duncan is mostly interested in listening to the Brooklyn Dodgers on the r … more →
The Burning Bridge by John Flanagan
prkcs wrote 6 days ago: This is the second book in the Ranger’s Apprentice series. The Kingdom of Araluen has prospered … more →
The Invisible Rules of the Zoe Lama by Tish Cohen
prkcs wrote 1 week ago: This children’s book was cute and fun. It tells the story of 7th grade Zoe who is the school … more →
The Penderwicks on Gradam Street by Jeanne Birdsall
prkcs wrote 1 week ago: There’s good news today! The Penderwick girls, Rosy, Skye, Jane and Batty are back and–if … more →
Black Storm Comin' by Diane Lee Wilson
prkcs wrote 2 weeks ago: This great survival story opens with the most hopeless of situations – a 12-year-old boy gets acci … more →
The House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
prkcs wrote 2 weeks ago: I have been reading Diana Wynn … more →
Skullduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
prkcs wrote 3 weeks ago: Skulduggery is a person — or rather a skeleton that was a person — who also happens to b … more →
Iron Thunder: the Battle Between the Monitor & the Merrimac by Avi
prkcs wrote 1 month ago: This is a new historical fiction series from this author called “I Witness”. Avi explains that … more →
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
prkcs wrote 1 month ago: If you had a favorite fairy tale when you were growing up, would you like to know more about the cha … more →
Gilda Joyce: The Ghost Sonata by Jennifer Allison
prkcs wrote 1 month ago: Oh my gosh! Wendy Choy, Gilda’s best friend, has qualified for an international piano competition … more →
Horace Splattly the Cupcaked Crusader by Lawrence David
prkcs wrote 1 month ago: Here he comes to save the day! Horace Splattly, the Cupcaked Crusader is on the way! At a grand heig … more →
The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner
prkcs wrote 1 month ago: One of my favorite books of 2005 was Sally Gardner’s book I, Coriander, a fascinating childre … more →
Greetings from Nowhere by Barbara O'Connor
prkcs wrote 1 month ago: The cover of this book made me think of another time, and so I was drawn to it. It is actually set … more →
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
prkcs wrote 2 months ago: Imagine being removed from your home in London during the build-up to World War II and being taken … more →
No Castles Here by A. E. Bauer
prkcs wrote 2 months ago: This is a surprising tale of a boy, Augie, who happens to accidentally steal a book from a bookstore … more →
H.I.V.E. The Overlord Protocol by Mark Walden
prkcs wrote 2 months ago: About a year ago I read and recommended on this blog the first book in the series H.I.V.E. That fa … more →
Oggie Cooder by Sarah Weeks
prkcs wrote 2 months ago: Let me tell you that Oggie Cooder is one quirky fourth-grader. He wears unusual clothes that he ge … more →
the dead & the gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
prkcs wrote 2 months ago: I have never been frightened by a book. When I was a toddler, I could look at picture books full o … more →
Fairy Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley
prkcs wrote 3 months ago: Do Fairy Tales need detectives? Daphne and Sabrina, the Grimm Sisters, thought so when they were plu … more →
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